The Week: November 12-15, 2012

Madison's very solid autumn season of touring live music continues this week with shows by Red Elvises, A Place to Bury Strangers, Matisyahu, Quiet Loudly, Paul Thorn, Turquoise Jeep, Menahan Street Band, Kris Delmhorst, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Hollywood Hustlers with Charles Walker, and Pretty Lights. The calendar also includes: a talk by Iain Couzin and a performance by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas.

Though this god-fearing reggae and hip-hop artist shed his Hasidic look last summer, he's been burning up the Billboard charts with Spark Seeker, which pairs raps about his Jewish heritage with somewhat secular pop tunes. With the Constellations.

If you're an indie-pop band from Brooklyn, N.Y., it doesn't get much better than being called "ramshackle, wistful and sweet as a summer afternoon." In fact, that's just how AllMusic described them recently. With pow wow.

In 2011, members of this hip-hop and R&B collective grabbed the national spotlight with the so-awful-it's-awesome video of "Lemme Smang It." Tunes such as "Cavities" (a slow jam dedicated to "all the ladies out there with a sweet tooth") will induce hiccups, especially if rapper Flynt Flossy shows off his "sultry" dance moves. With CrashPrez and hitmayng.

In addition to being a talented singer-songwriter, this veteran of Boston's coffeehouse folk scene can play at least eight instruments. No Depression dubbed her 2011 album, Cars -- a collection of covers by the '80s New Wave band the Cars -- "thought-provoking and nostalgic," in the best possible sense. With Hayward Williams.

Though Walker, an accomplished saxophonist from Milwaukee, makes clubs swelter with his funk and R&B tunes, his number-one love is good, old-fashioned blues. Get to know his latest songs and newest band, the Hollywood Hustlers, at this show.

This show is as much about its lighting display as its music, but expect a solid display of dubstep, hip-hop and funky EDM from Derek Vincent Smith and friends. Afterward, fans can choose between an afterparty at the Majestic Theatre featuring dirty-beats specialist DJ Jack Mulqueen (11 pm) and a dubstep party at Segredo starring British wobble-master Mista Hyde (9 pm).